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Auction: 24023 - British East Africa - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 69

British East Africa
1890-95 Imperial British East Africa "Sun and Crown" Definitive Issue
Horizontal pair imperforate between
3a. black on bright red block of four, variety imperforate between vertically, unused with part original gum; some gum thins due to hinge removal otherwise fine. Only three sheets (90 pairs) possible, a very large portion of which were used. The only known mint multiple. S.G. 8ac, £1,800. Photo

provenance:
Arthur Hind, June 1934
Dale Lichtenstein, March 1991
G. Carleton Jones, July 1995
John Minns, April 2001

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Sold for
£800